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I get this question a lot, "I keep taking L-arginine,

L-citrulline, my nitric oxide doesn't get better, and I'm

still deficient in nitric oxide." In my last episode, I

talked about how you can measure nitric oxide by using the nitric

oxide strip. But if you keep taking the L-arginine, L

citrulline, and you don't see an improvement, that's why we're

going to talk about it today, because I don't want you to

waste your money and get frustrated, because there are

multiple reasns why you will not make nitric oxide by taking

L-arginine or L citrullate, and that your diet is the best thing

possible. So stay with me ob this. We're going to get a

little nerdy. We're going to get into the size of it a little

bit, but just stay with me, and I'm going to try to explain to

you why taking L-arginine, L-centulline does not increase

your nitric oxide.

First of all, is a first pass metabolism in your gut and your

liver. A significant portion of the supplement that you take

that has L-arginine, L-citrulline in it get

metabolized and it doesn't go to the bloodstream once it go to

your stomach and goes to the liver. So the liver and the gut

kind of decrease the amount of bioavailability for even your

body to even convert it to nitric oxide. Now, in order for

your body to convert nitric oxide, you need the system

called NOS. NOS means nitric oxide synthase. What nitric

oxide synthase is kind of like an enzyme that has to convert

the L-citrulline, L-arginine to nitric oxide. But if that enzyme

is not working well, no matter how much L-arginine,

L-citrulline you take, it will not convert it, because that

enzyme is not going to make you nitric oxide. So you can have a

gazillion L-arginine, L-citrulline sitting here, the

enzyme is not going to convert it to nitric oxide. And in fact,

when you have that much L-arginine, L-citrulline, it

will actually become something that is inflammatory. It will

actually decrease blood flow, which is the opposite of what

you want to take, and may even harm your erection. So in most

individual, taking L-arginine, you will not make nitric oxide

because your enzyme, in what's called is saturated, no longer

working well. That's called the L-arginine paradox, and that the

nitric oxide synthase enzyme depends upon many, many factors.

I'm not going to go over and board you, but it depends on a

lot of vitamins and co-factors. That's why most of the time it

doesn't work well. By the time you're 40, 50% of the NOS system

is actually not even effective at all too. So just want you to

let you know that by time you're 40, you've lost about 50% the

ability to make nitric oxide. And that if you take too much

nitric oxide, it will become inflammatory, and it will

actually decrease blood flow as well, too.

So in context, I hope you understand that if your enzyme

is not working, then you're not making nitric oxide. So the best

thing is to take it from your diet, and on this slide that I'm

showing you, is going to talk about the two systems that I

talk about, the NOS system which is on the left side, which it

depend upon the enzyme, and then from your diet, because if you

take, like arugula or beet and take sunflower seed, it will go

to your mouth, and then your bacteria will convert it, and

also the gastric acid in your stomach will convert it to

nitric oxide. So you know that your enzyme is going to be

deficient 50% of the time. Try to get your nitric oxide from

your diet to increase your nitric oxide, and that's one of

the reason why we created the nitric oxide capsule here that

has arugula extract and no L-aginine, L-citrulline because

it gives you the arugula straight into your system

without your NOS enzyme having to convert it. So it gives you

straight your nitric oxide. I that you need to increase blood

flow. And therefore, if you're taking L-citrulline, L-arginine,

and you're not having increase in nitric oxide, that is the

reason why, because you're NOS enzyme is not working well, and

that you need to supplement it through diet. And also I talked

about in my previous episode, breathing. Breathing exercises

where you breathe into your nose, breathe in for count of

four and breathe out for a count of six, will also increase

nitric oxide. Also exercise, such as doing weight training or

high intensity interval exercise, will also increase

your nitric oxide. So just simple things like that will go

a long way, rather than taking L-citrulline, L-arginine,

because it depended upon the enzyme system NOS, which is

really not working that well. Also strategies that I talked

about in the past episode, you can check out here where, you

know, avoid taking fluoride mouthwash or fluoride

toothpaste, and decrease the amount of antacid that you need

to take. So that goes a long way, and I hope that will save

you some money in taking the L-arginine, L-citrulline.

Let me know what you think about this. And I'm hoping just to

save you guys some money and make sure that you measure your

nitric oxide with the strip here I'm deficient so I take my

nitric oxide capsule of arugula extract every day. You can find

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broken, and do not have to suffer with ED at this time. So

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you in the next one, Modern Man.

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